The smell of bacon was in the air Saturday as thousands converged on Iowa's capital city for an increasingly popular festival celebrating all things connected with the meat.

Some people wore Viking hats and others walked around with makeshift snouts for the Blue Ribbon Bacon Festival. The annual event featured more than 10,000 pounds of bacon served in unusual ways, such as chocolate-dipped bacon and bacon-flavored cupcakes and gelato.

"I love bacon more than I love my job," said Katie Nordquist, who was dressed in a tuxedo T-shirt that looked like bacon Saturday for her first time at the festival.

On a lark ordered some fancy applewood smoked bacon from out of state mail order catalog. It was good, but didn’t find it better by any stretch than the stuff at the grocery store. So we got that goin’ for us, that’s nice.

Fried eggs are good with bacon, but a little heavy - what goes better imo is poached in water (runny yolks) over toast w/ lots of dairy butter. A side of hash browns (cheaper the better) white pepper with grated onion and velveeta. Grape jelly on toast, coffee, juice rounds out a good breakfast.

911 what's your emergency? I nailed my finger to a birdhouse accidentally Do your have some bacon (bacon?) Bacon, That's right I have bacon left over from dinner last night Rub some bacon on it what? On your hand just do it Rub some bacon on it That's all there is to it?

What if I dropped my phone? Rub some bacon on it or encounter my clone? Rub some bacon on it I get mononucleosis Rub some bacon on it My nude pics get posted

Rub some bacon on it Rub some bacon on it Rub some bacon on it Yeah

My home gets foreclosed Rub some bacon on it My cat explodes Rub some bacon on it I wake up in a trunk Rub some bacon on it My friend goes steampunk Rub some bacon on it I meet real pirates Rub some bacon on it There's an akward silence

I say something unintentionally racist Rub some bacon on it I'm a adult with braces Rub some bacon on it I can't swim Rub some bacon on it I'm visited by Mr. Timn

Rub some bacon on it Rub some bacon on it Rub some bacon on it

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posted on 02/10/2013 5:10:13 AM PST
by rlmorel
(1793 French Jacobins and 2012 American Liberals have a lot in common.)

Dang it. The stupid site I got the lyrics from there left out my favorite stanza:

Bacon hotline, Whats your problem? What if I feed the troll? Rub some bacon on it Im attacked by a narwhal Rub some bacon on it The apocalypse started Rub some bacon on it I think I might have sharted

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posted on 02/10/2013 5:19:51 AM PST
by rlmorel
(1793 French Jacobins and 2012 American Liberals have a lot in common.)

The way these pigs are killed, raised — stuck in gestation crates — watching their piglets live in darkness in a factory, boiled flippin’ alive for the dehairing process — all so jerks like you all can shove pig flesh in your mouths, get high cholesterol, and most of you are fat. Inflating health care costs...it’s inexcusable what you consumers do to animals and how they are treated, all so you can buy the hype and shove down your throats fat greased bacon (pig skin and flesh).

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posted on 02/10/2013 6:41:54 AM PST
by Arrowhead1952
(Dims are stupid, period. End of conversation.)

I recently read a book written by a vegan woman who runs a “sanctuary” for farm animals. She went so far as to say that we should not shear sheep. I read through the whole thing to see what she proposed as the eventual utility for these lovely farm animals that she’s championing. She spared about two paragraphs (IIRC) for her vision for the future - farm animals raised as beloved pets, roaming about farms in their “family” groups.

Okay. I’m a farmer. Livestock very rarely form “family” groups. Bulls, boars and rams are not exactly models of family fidelity. Besides, what kind of market does she think will be out there for livestock “pets”? Who out there wants to keep cattle for companionship, and not meat or milk? If her vision came true, we’d see a lot of endangered species out there.

I’m totally against cruel farm practices, but the only reason for most livestock to exist is their utility. Take that away and you take away the reason for continuing their breeding.

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posted on 02/10/2013 7:26:57 AM PST
by mrs. a
(It's a short life but a merry one...)

Last night I used my coupons to score a FREE 22 oz Oscar Mayer Applewood Smoked THICK CUT pack of bacon. I used 3 Poise femine products $3 coupons to buy 3 Poise Pantyliners that cost $3.49 each. Then I combined those coupons with 3 Publix Greensheet coupons also worth $3 for a total of $6 off. Thus after applying the coupons to the Poise pantyliners I had $2.51 overage on each product. Multiply by 3 gave me a total overage of $7.51. The bacon was selling for $7.99 but the packs had a $1.00 coupon on them making the pack $6.99. Then I bought some limes as fillers to eat up the remaining overage to bring my grand total to just about $7.51 and got my bacon for FREE. And I just got done eating some about a half hour ago.

And if you think that is slick. One of the cashiers yesterday told me about a woman who comes in twice a week to buy over a thousand bucks of stuff and gets back about $1500 in overage. Thus she gets several thousand bucks worth of stuff PLUS earns about $3000 in cash each week. CRAZY!!! I just apply my overage to products I need. Somehow I feel strange about receiving actual cash back although it has happened by accident a few times when I miscalculated my deals.

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posted on 02/10/2013 7:37:55 AM PST
by PJ-Comix
(Beware the Rip in the Space/Time Continuum)

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